Air-Share

[App] Air-Share

Air-ShareAir-Share : Designed with Android TV and Android HDMI sticks in mind.

Air-Share extends the Share feature for all Android apps to share media content between devices. It’s not exactly a File Transfer app (but it can do that). It’s not a DLNA/UPNP app (but it can replace that). It definitely beats emailing documents to yourself. It is not a Cloud service; there is a tiny web server running inside the Air-Share app. The shared files never leave your home network.

Air-Share extends the “Share” option in your Android apps, allowing the sharing of items between Android devices across your WiFi and Ethernet network.You can also share from PC/Mac/iPad to Android via your browser. If you have used Google’s “Chrome To Phone” app then you are familiar with the concept. This app is designed to be more general purpose than Chrome To Phone; allowing the sharing of most anything from any app on any Android device, including large data streams.

It can share many media items that Chromecast cannot. It can queue your media links on Android TV as recommendations or notifications for later viewing.

The app is great for sharing between family members. Share with Amazon Kindle/Fire devices or Android entertainment units.

How to Use it:

1) Install the app on your Android devices
2) Perform a pairing between devices and you are ready to share
3) Use the Share or Send feature in your favourite apps and when prompted, scroll and find the Air-Share icon.
3) For non-android users, generate unique browser URLs for PC/Mac/iPad to share to your Android TV.

The app builds on the intents filter and content provider features in Android. It intercepts SEND, VIEW and SEND_MULTIPLE Intents and transfers files and intents across your Wifi or Ethernet network.

This is not a cloud service. Your files stay on your local network. Transferred files are saved in your downloads directory. It is your responsibility to delete them.

share YouTube videos
share links from your Facebook feed and queue them for later viewing
transfer photos and videos from your Gallery apps
share web links, magnet urls, etc
share files and office documents from your favourite file explorer (tested with Astro and ES Explorer)
transfer and play instantly, music and movie files (mp3, mp4, etc)
share Google Maps markers
share App links from the Play Store
share location , GPS coordinates, KML files, Google Tracks
share contacts, people, vCards
share files from any device with an HTML-5 browser on your network.

Nexus Player users – if you are having trouble sharing YouTube and other web links with your Nexus Player then try installing the “Now Browser” on your player. (See the side-loading note below.)

App Side-loading: You can use Air-Share in combination with “APK Share & Backup” (com.kayan.nurav.apkshare) to side-load apps from your phone to your Android TV. Install Air-Share on both devices and pair them. Load “APK Share & Backup” on your phone and choose which app to share. Choose Air-Share as the share destination and then choose your Android TV as the destination. (You must change your settings to allow loading apps from outside the play store.) As there is no Web Browser shipped on the Nexus Player, you may want to side-load the “Now Browser” in addition to apps like QuickPic (Jpeg viewer). When side-loading from your phone keep in mind that the Nexus Player is an x86 device while your phone is likely ARM based, so native apps may have issues.

If you find something the app won’t share, please email me at the address on the Play page.

Air-Share user reviews :

Love this Easiest way to share anything to any devices

Good developer response to paring issue.

Contact developer :

Email

Video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EXcz518ALM

Download Air-Share from Play Store :

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